Spicy Beef and Bacon Meatball Pizza-- MEATBALLS
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Recipe type: Pizza
Serves: 20-22
 
Ingredients
  • 1 pound ground beef (80/20 mix- meat to fat)
  • 10 ounces of fatty thick bacon diced fine
  • 1 cup red onion finely diced
  • 1 egg
  • 12, inch-long Calabrian chilies diced fine into 2 heaping tablespoons
  • 9 tablespoons panko breadcrumbs
  • 4 tablespoons grated Parmigiano Reggiano
  • 5 tablespoons chopped parsley
  • 6 tablespoons chopped basil
  • 1.5 teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper
  • ½ teaspoon granulated garlic
Instructions
  1. Sauté the diced bacon until just partially cooked and leaching juice. Set aside.
  2. In the same pan, sauté the red onion for 2 minutes until just transparent. Set aside.
  3. In a bowl large enough to accommodate the mix, Place the beef, bacon and all the other ingredients.
  4. Mix thoroughly with your gloved hands. (This is the best mixer.)
  5. When mixed, place two small dollops from different areas in the mix onto foil and place in a 400 F oven. Cook for long enough for a taste test. Adjust taste levels as needed for heat, saltiness etc.
  6. Place a sheet of parchment on a large sheet pan.
  7. Heat deck oven to 400 F.
  8. Ball up the mix into meatballs just larger than a golf ball and gently place on the parchment.
  9. Bake meatballs to your specifications. 7 to 8 minutes will yield medium rare meatballs at 124-126 F with a thermometer. 10 to 12 minutes will yield well-done meatballs. (Remember that the meatballs may cook too much on a pizza if you place at the beginning of the bake.)
Recipe by Pizza Today at https://staging-pizzatoday.kinsta.cloud/recipes/pizzas/spicy-beef-and-bacon-meatball-pizza